Disclaimer: I do not own any characters related or the video game .hack. I own oc characters. Lumir (girl), Memory (girl), Heacura (girl), Sinai (girl), Hanu (girl), Meisa (girl), and Dishoru (boy).

Lumir x Balmung Memory x Kite Sinai x Kazu Hanu x Sanjuro Heacura x Elk Dishoru x Meisa

Login 8: Net Slums…

"Who told you that?" A strange voice came out of the corner. "A friend of mine, wait who is there?" Lumir said as she turned around. A strange player character showed up with a grin on his face. He looked like a sword master with the cut up red orange hair and gold eyes. His priest looking like outfit was green. He was taller than Aura and Lumir. "So you look like a newbie and so does that girl-what the hell are you two doing here?" he asked with a grin. "None of your damn business." Lumir stated ignoring to give him an answer. "Well you seem feisty enough, you must be a newbie then. You seem cute to play with-what's the name?" he said circling Lumir. "Lumir, why?" Lumir said as she raised her voice. The mark on her chest began to glow strangely to her anger. "Oh I see, you must be Balmung's woman." the hacker said laughing. "Great this is a better treat if I mess with you for a bit before he comes to your rescue." he said grabbing Lumir's arm. "Let go of me you freak!" Lumir said as she pulled out her heavy blade with her free hand. She then slashed the hacker in the face which caused him to stumble in his own puddle of data processed blood. Aura floated beside Lumir silent until the hacker kneeled up.

"What are you? I can feel the pain outside my computer!" The hacker stood up trembling. "I am not the one you should be messing with. So go now or I will give you another slash to the body." Lumir said with a serious look on her face. "Lumir, no wonder some people are afraid of you in the servers, not because you are Balmung's first lady but for a newbie you can harm a person on the outside of the world." the hacker said before running away. "Lumir are you okay?" Aura asked. "Yes I'm okay Aura. I just think this item has gotten through my strength now. I don't want to hurt any player or non-player character…it's not right for me at all." Lumir smiled. An NPC approached the two, it had a TV for a head but it made a strange facial expression on its monitor. The vision on the TV monitor when static. "You…are…a…player…character…" it said slowly. "Yeah, how about you?" Lumir asked nicely. The character tilted on its side. "No…I am…a…NPC…but…I want…to…exist." It finished. "I want…to…exist." the character kept repeating itself. "Exist? But you do exist…in this world." Lumir sighed. "No…I want…to…exist…in…the real…world…too. I…want…to…exist. I want…to…exist." The character kept saying.

Aura floated around the character. "This character is a fragment of some corrupted data. A hacker must've created it." Aura said observing it. "Corrupted data, so each of these characters are just broken remnants?" Lumir asked. "Yes…sadly they can never leave this place to human players, well hackers, these things are just trash." Aura sighed. "This place is terrible I want to help fix it but how can I? I can't alter an area that simply. It has never been done by one person before…" Lumir said. Lumir then glowed blue again. "What the-I didn't kill anything." Lumir said as she looked up at the sky. "You must have won the battle against the hacker." Aura explained. "That hacker was at a pretty high level like in his forties." Lumir said as she shook her head.

"You are at level 15 now. Keep fighting other player characters higher than you in level then you might be getting an increased amount of levels next time." Aura said smiling. "You're right." Lumir said smiling back. Someone then popped behind Lumir. It was Balmung, he didn't look angry but he didn't look happy either. "I see you found the net slums Lumir." he said hesitating to keep his stubbornness. "Yeah I found it." Lumir said turning around. Aura was already gone in appearance but she could get through Lumir's mind. "The system administrators are looking for people connected to hackers…do you know anything about it?" Balmung asked. "I don't think so…" Lumir started to think. "Then tell me how you got here. A hacker just tried to attack you and you practically injured them in real life." Balmung said.

"Balmung, why are you angry with me…" Lumir said as she walked past him. "I am not angry with you, I am concerned about you." "You don't seem like it, it's more like you want me to stop doing what I am doing in this world Balmung! I can't stand it when people tell me what to do." Lumir said angrily. Balmung gave her a sigh and placed a hand on her shoulder. "I apologize fair lady, I just don't want to find out that you are in a comatose just like my friend and the other players." he said sadly. Lumir turned around not angry but worried. "Balmung…" Lumir said before she hugged him. "I'll be fine, I will not stop playing the world and get into a coma. It just won't happen that way. I promise." Lumir said crying slightly. Balmung hugged her tightly kissing her forehead. "Come on Lumir, I can't be that angry at you. It is not your fault." he said. "Then let me do what I have to do-protect Aura!" Lumir said crying. "Okay I will help you do that…by keeping the system administrators on a wild goose chase if they suspect something." Balmung said lifting her chin.

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Login 9: Promises through the servers…
Net Slums are more shocking to Lumir than they are suppose to be. Balmung gets her out of there before it reveals too much to her. Lumir refuses to go until she speaks with more broken characters. These characters seem sad in a way…